Ingredients

  • 1 cup dried split green peas
  • 1 cup dried split yellow peas
  • 1 cup brown lentils
  • 8 cups water
  • 3 -4 bay leaves
  • 2 medium leeks
  • 1 large carrot
  • 3 stalks celery
  • 2 cups chopped cabbage
  • 4 cups crushed tomatoes
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • salt

Method

  • Wash and pick over the peas and lentils and cook them in 8 cups of water with the bay leaves until the peas are mushy and the lentils are cooked.
  • Meanwhile, trim, chop, and wash the leeks.
  • Peel and grate the carrot.
  • Saute them until soft in 1 tbsp of the oil, and add them to the soup.
  • Chop the celery and the cabbage.
  • Saute them together in the remaining vegetable oil until limp.
  • Add them to the soup with the tomatos and add salt to taste.
  • Simmer to blend.
  • Heat up and serve the next day.